MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENTS.

Evening Star, Issue 18256, 21 April 1923, Page 13

MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENTS.

10 THE EDITOF Sir.—lt is good to see that the ' Evening Star has in at least one instance come to recognise that a municipal trading department which it consistently condemned, or at any rate severely criticised, at its inception, is now ‘‘one of the corporation departments which must bo specially and emphatically exempted from any charge of non-progressiveness.” I refer to Wnipori. Cr Shaddock, at his meeting on Wednesday, mentioned that the ‘Star’ had never lost an opportunity of condemning expenditure on this work. Perhaps in a year or two, sir, your paper will have the grace to concede that certain other departments (especially in view of the admittedly difficult financial position that had to be overcome) have been developed and have prospered satisfactorily, and will be pleased to place them also on the “ exempted ” list. It is never too late to admit one has been wrong.—l am, etc., ' Scandia. April 20. [Cr Shaddock’s criticism was qualified by the phrase “in the early days." Wo shall bo pleased if “in a year or two” we should find ourselves in the position of being able to exempt most, if not all, of the council’s departments from the unwelcome charge. But it is a prospect which will require a good deal from the council that is to bo elected.— Ed. E.S.]